Southwestern sixth-graders have the annual Science Bowl down to a science.

This year's team placed third overall in the state, and it is the fourth time that the school's sixth-grade team has placed in the top three. The school has never finished outside the top 10.

This year's team earned a final score of 80.5, giving it a higher score than last year's team which placed second in the state. Greencastle Middle School and St. Richards School finished in second and first place respectively.

Team captain Maddy Jacobs said the team did well and that participating was a lot of fun. It was Maddy's job to gather team members' votes, and cast a tie-breaking vote if needed.

"We even got a 10-out-of-10 in one round, so that was very exciting," Maddy said.

The competition is split into three rounds: a team round where everyone on the team answers 15-20 questions online; an individual round that involves four team members taking four separate tests; and an experimentation round where judges ask the teams questions about experiments they did before the competition.